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Carrefour Encouraging Singaporeans To Shop In JB?

Aug 8, 2008 Fun, Malaysia, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs

Carrefour advertisement on ST, 080808

When I saw this newspaper ad of Carrefour, I was quite amused. It is on today’s Straits Times, page B11. Seems like Carrefour is encouraging people to shop in JB huh? That’s why they are giving out RM10 voucher? kekeke I wonder is any STOMPer will complain about this on STOMP or not.

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Many People Actually Saw Mas Selamat Just After He Escaped From The Detention Centre

Mar 13, 2008 Gossips, Scandals, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs

This is on 13th Mar Straits Times, but I am not sure if I should believe it. It means that, during that period, actually there were many people who saw Mas Selamat, this auntie, another lady in white, and many more motorist along the road. That happened in broad daylight yet no one seems to remember anything? The people not observant enough? Or what? Then if the news of escaping had been released earlier, there might be chance on capturing Mas Selamat along the road there, am I right to say this? Well, I am just noob about all this stuffs.

Taken from Straits Times:

March 13, 2008
WAS FUGITIVE LIMPING ALONG THIS ROAD?

‘I think I saw Mas Selamat’

A Straits Times reader describes what she saw on Thomson Road an hour after detainee escaped

A FORTY-YEAR-OLD mother of three was on her way home from work the afternoon Mas Selamat Kastari escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Centre when she spotted a limping man along Thomson Road.

She was on Mount Pleasant Road, a short distance from the detention centre, when she saw him approach a stranger.

Although she saw him on Feb 27, it was not until three days later that she realised he might have been the fugitive Jemaah Islamiah leader.

A lecturer in communication skills, she said it was a report in this newspaper that prompted her to call the police. She asked not to be named.

This is what she told YEO GHIM LAY and CHONG CHEE KIN:

‘I had just finished my work that day and was heading back to my home in Bishan. I work in Stevens Road and usually knock off at about 4.30pm to 4.45pm.

I was at Mount Pleasant Road and waiting to turn into Thomson Road when I had to stop at the junction. That was about 5pm.

I saw a Malay man on the other side of Thomson Road, walking on the pavement against the flow of traffic on that side.

He was walking towards the bus-stop in front of the St Joseph’s Institution (SJI) International school.

He had a limp in his left leg. He was dressed in some sort of brown or beige outfit which looked like a T-shirt. He was a little on the plump side, but not fat, and wasn’t very tall. He looked very similar to the description they released later of Mas Selamat.

He didn’t look well dressed - he was very scruffy, like a vagrant.

There was a Chinese woman dressed all in white walking on the pavement towards him and she was talking on her mobile phone.

When they came towards each other, he held out his hand, looking like he was asking for money, but she ignored him.

I stayed to watch because I was worried he might do something to the woman.

But then he started crossing the road. There wasn’t a pedestrian crossing, and he put up his hand to ask the approaching motorists to let him pass.

He stopped at the middle of the road, where there was a barricade. He was facing me then, and I could see his face from the front.

He looked very disoriented, very dishevelled, like he was in a daze. He didn’t look like he knew where he was going, or like he was looking for someone.

All this took a few minutes and I had to move off because there was a car behind me.

I’m not sure where the man went after that.

It didn’t occur to me at the time that this could have been the terrorist who escaped, because the news didn’t come out until that evening.

I only realised that he might have been Mas Selamat on Saturday morning, when I read in The Straits Times about a similar possible sighting near the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped in Toa Payoh Rise, just down the road from where I had been.

There was a side profile picture in the papers, and it looked like him. He wasn’t clean shaven, had a beard, and looked scruffy.

I called the police. That afternoon an investigating officer met me and took me to the place. I showed the officer where I saw the man.

If the man I saw was Mas Selamat, it didn’t look like it was a planned escape. He didn’t look like he was waiting for someone to pick him up.’